Recent content by Tamwen

While the story started as more of a Twilight satire, with the seed of the idea being "How Can I Make Twilight Less Offensively Terrible", it has become a full-fledged story in my mind, and other than girl-falls-for-teenage-vampire-and-there's-a-werewolf-and-one-vampire-that-sees-the-future...

Unfortunately, while both of those states are great, they don't mesh well with my vampires. Sunlight may not kill my vampires, but it isn't fantastic for their health, so extremely sunny locations aren't ideal on a long-term basis. Alaska may be rather similar to Washington state, but the...

I'm currently exploring the idea of setting my Teenage Vampire Romance Project in a small, fictional town in Alaska, but while I've done some research, I feel I need some more in-depth and personal (?) help? Here are some questions that I would greatly appreciate answers to: A) What would you...

I like it when programs have like... places for character creation, and writing out ideas for races and locations and such. A program that's as much about world building as it is about story building, or CAN BE as much about world building. Dunno if Scrivener is like that, but it could just be...

Scrivener was never a favorite for me. It looked so complicated. I use Google Drive with lots of files and such, but also I've got the demo for Write It Now. I prefer that one's layout: a place for chapters, a place for characters, a place for notes, a place for locations, and easily accessible...

Okay, I'm writing something and one of the characters is a former Catholic. I was just wondering if you guys could help me figure out what quirks or habits a former Catholic might have. Any turns of phrase or exclamations of irritation that are considered primarily Catholic? Any tendencies or...

I'm considering a more urban fantasy featuring a character with some mental health issues: hallucinations (auditory and visual), vivid nightmares, lost time. Makes becoming entangled in a bunch of ridiculous brouhahas with vampires and witches and such rather... interesting. But there are...

"We are looking for all fantasy genres of any length." Just ignore me.... I'm stupid...

Are there requirements as far as length? I can never figure out what qualifies as a short story...

One of the best shows that showed how awful vampirism can be has always been Being Human, in my opinion. Yeah, the main vampire (Mitchell) is quite lovely and snarky and rather sweet, but drinking blood is a horrific addiction that you basically cannot get rid of. Drinking blood from anything...

I could see it being like... They were part of the military but were going through the actual channels and learning and doing it right (for lack of better word)... and then their father threw in his lot with the rebels after an "incident" with the king and suddenly they're promoted and getting...

The two elder boys are the nephews of the king, which I assume counts as royalty. The king is, I'd say... Mid to late forties, while his younger brother (the boys' father) is early forties, maybe late thirties if I want to lessen the age difference between him and my FMC even more. I'm actually...

Definitely not peacetime in this case... But for the eldest son to be 26, that means he was born when the father was 15. So either I age up the father, which could work, or they (the father and mother) were just quite young when they got married/had kids.

Medieval or thereabouts, roughly. In my story, the king's brother has four children, two of which are actively in the military. I estimate the father to be in his early forties, but I'm not quite certain how young or old the sons would have to be to believably be military leaders. I'm...

Whedon has some of the most amazing female characters. Calling him a sexist is so hilariously backwards.